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Showing 1 to 20 of 829 for “"Prominence"”.
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Prosodic prominence in English
… than nonprominent words in English. Perceptual prominence is associated with meaning of a word in discourse context. Prominent words are usually new or contrastive information, while nonprominent words are given or noncontrastive information. This dissertation addresses English prominence in two …
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Issues in the phonology of prominence
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1990.
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The prominence of referring expressions: message and lexical level effects
… in the language production system and the prominence of referring expressions. In particular, this thesis focuses on the effect of processing at the message and lexical levels of language production. Across seven experiments, I examine three factors that affect prominence: predictability, …
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Newspaper framing of indicted U.S. athletes: Evaluating orientation, prominence and proximity
… this study is the following: To what extent do prominence, proximity and orientation affect newspaper framing of indicted U.S. athletes? For the purpose of comparability, only violent crimes that implicate famous athletes, or college athletes attending a prestigious institution, are examined in …
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The phonetics of metrical prominence and its consequences on segmental phonology
… of stress, although they don't seem to enhance prominence of the stressed position: the preservation of segmental contrast and the enhancement of acoustic properties of the releases in stress-adjacent consonants. The main question of this dissertation is why there are so few segmental processes …
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Focal prominence in tone languages: A case study of three Chinese languages
… investigates the phonetic realisation of focal prominence in three Chinese languages: Cantonese, Chengdu Mandarin, and Changsha Xiang. These languages, each representing a unique dialect group with distinct tonal systems, present novel opportunities for sentence-level prosodic comparisons. Using …
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The path to prominence: Nationalism and the Library of Congress, 1835-1897
Basic components of nineteenth century American nationalism influenced the creation of a national library in the United States. Manifest destiny, mission, nativism, and cultural nationalism provided the impetus to build an institution that preserved, symbolized, and spread national thought and …
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The Role of Water in the Rise, Prominence, and Decline of Nabataean Petra
… paper evaluates the rise of Nabataean Petra, its prominence, and eventual decline. The predominant context is effective water management as a pivotal driving factor in the growth of the Nabataean kingdom, which fostered an environment in which its famous incense trade could develop. Rising incense …
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What happened (and what didn't): prominence promotes representation of salient alternatives in discourse
In five experiments, I investigated how readers and listeners generate relevant contrasts in comprehending and remembering discourse. Past work has suggested that prominent words promote encoding of salient alternatives and that this benefits later memory, but it is unclear exactly which …
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Chaos and context : speculations about the prominence of participatory art since the mid 1990s
… the mid 1990s, participatory art has gained prominence, both in terms of current art production and retrospectives of Dadaist and 1960s 'open work'. Using Eco's essay as a model, this could be seen as a result of the progression of a Quantum Theory worldview to a view that is understood in …
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The perception and production of prominence in Spanish by heritage speakers and L2 learners
… and production of two types of prosodic prominence in Spanish: word-level prominence (i.e., lexical stress), marking paradigmatic contrast (e.g., Canto. 'I sing.' vs. Cantó. 'He/She/You (formal) sang.'), and sentence-level prominence (i.e., nuclear stress), marking information status and …
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Decentering and Dismantling white Prominence in Music Education: Portraits of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
As racial and ethnic diversity increases in a multicultural pluralistic society, professional music education institutions like orchestras and higher education institutions strive to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives into their programming, missions, and values. …
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Her Hideous Progeny: <em>Frankenstein</em>'s Legacy, Adaptability, and Contemporary Prominence to Critical Story Telling
<p>This thesis situates the narrative of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley with two contemporary adaptations Get Out (2017) by Jordan Peele and Poor Things (2023) by Yorgos Lanthimos. The original 1818 Frankenstein text is composed of different discourses about race, gender, monstrosity, and what it …
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Salient professionals, a silent profession: the rise, prominence, and marginalization of lawyers in Korea under Japan’s rule 1906-1945
… the discrepancy between the dramatic rise and prominence of lawyer as individual practitioners and their collective disempowerment as bar associations in colonial Korea, this dissertation conceptualizes the colonial legal structures by relying theories of social structures and legal pluralism …
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Communicating the modern entrepreneurial university in the 21st century: a case study of academic capitalism and media messaging in the pursuit of revenues and national prominence at Louisiana State University
… paths for increasing LSU’s national academic prominence and entrepreneurial success.
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Segmental alternations and metrical theory
… or constrained by word-internal prosody, i.e. prominence and foot structure, and what these alternations can tell us about metrical theory. Detailed case studies of several cases of prosody sensitive segmental alternations, as well as a survey of such phenomena mentioned in the literature were …
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